Bay Area traffic is legendary for maddening traffic jams that even the best podcasts can’t soothe. Traffic steals time from all the other things we’d rather be doing - in the Bay Area it amounts to over a year of our life on average that we will never get back.…
By Willie L. Brown Jr., Special to CalMatters, April 14, 2020 Many opponents of the original Proposition 13 have never given up. The same groups that fought the ballot measure more than four decades ago when 65 percent of the state’s electorate passed it have repeatedly tried to destroy the…
California is in the midst of an unprecedented economic crisis. Small businesses in California face yet another threat—Prop 15 on the November ballot. Prop 15 will be the largest property tax increase in state history at $11.5 billion per year. Prop 15 shreds long-standing protections under Prop 13 that have…
There are many reasons to be concerned about the upcoming election in the United States, but none greater than the rise of the "deepfake" fabricated or doctored video that appears real, but that shows someone doing something they never did. With the tools for making these videos cheaper and more…
On August 25, 2020, the Silicon Valley Leadership Group’s Community College to Career program hosted a first-of-its-kind virtual career fair in partnership with Bay Area Council, Bay Area Community College Consortium and Ohlone College. A free, equity-focused event that brought together 25 community colleges, universities, nonprofits and workforce boards, the…
Every year, the Silicon Valley Business Journal (SVBJ) seeks to highlight leaders under 40 that have distinguished themselves in their fields and communities. A cross-section of entrepreneurs, inventors, executives, and visionaries from numerous disciplines, the "40 Under 40" honorees represent the various ways we can each influence and shape positive change,…
On August 9, the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, our member companies, and mayors from our Mayors’ Circle representing cities across the Bay Area launched the Be a Hero, Wear a Mask campaign. Our nation’s top health experts – including Robert R. Redfield, M.D., Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
Leadership Group members expect that remote work strategies will be a part of life in the regional economy even beyond the lifting of shelter-in-place orders, according to the latest survey of Leadership Group CEOs and executives. While recognizing that not every business and not every role in an organization is…
Dear David Packard: In the summer of 1977, you pulled together 33 valley visionaries to advance the future of our region, partially in response to the energy crisis gripping our nation and crippling California. While fierce competitors in the marketplace, you all knew you could be effective collaborators in the…
Soon, the Silicon Valley Leadership Group will get a new CEO. And that means Carl Guardino, the man who has been leading one of the most influential business advocacy organizations in the Bay Area, will be stepping down after 23 years. Think about that run for a moment. Guardino, 58,…